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When a word comes to mean everything, it means nothing.
In a world of fast answers, leadership shaped by suffering is radical — and transformative.
For over 10 billion years, the cosmic star-formation rate has been dropping and dropping. Someday, the final star in the Universe will die.
Digital tools are pulling us away from fixed texts and back toward fluid, interactive communication.
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“People got skeptical, fearful, doubtful of the very idea of progress in the 20th century and we allowed that to slow down progress itself.”
"Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end."
We first measured G, the gravitational constant, back in the 18th century. As the least well-known fundamental constant, can it be improved?
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“There are at least three very much interrelated misconceptions about trauma right now.”
In this excerpt from "The First Eight," Congressman Jim Clyburn shares the story of Robert Smalls, the man whose audience with Lincoln may have saved the Union army.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
In 2017, a kilonova sent light and gravitational waves across the Universe. Here on Earth, there was a 1.7 second signal arrival delay. Why?
Ryan Holiday on why wisdom depends on failure, experimentation, and the courage to admit when we’re wrong.
NASA’s Caleb Scharf talks with Big Think about life’s long experiment in expansion.
The greatest companies navigate change at speed and make it stick at scale. Here’s how IBM started that journey in 2012.
Governance scholar and University of Pittsburgh professor Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Ph.D. on the forces that decide whether conflicted nations unify or unravel.
John Templeton Foundation
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“The purpose of a coach is to not be the one to set the goals, but instead to say, "Here are the kinds of goals we can work our way through.””
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The brain is an “illusion factory.” Here’s what that means for our perception of time.
Unlikely Collaborators
Dark matter, dark energy, and the Big Bang are all part of a solid scientific foundation. Here's why popular media often claims otherwise.
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“Chance invents and natural selection propagates that chance invention.”
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In the operating room, success isn’t about one person but the teamwork behind them. Surgeon Atul Gawande says those lessons under pressure apply far beyond medicine.